The guava phenology has a rhythm to the sound of the dry seasons, it is there where the great and round silence appears to mark a pause, to accumulate strength and energy. And it is that, during the autumn, it sheds its leaves to the ground, partially, and together with the other leaves of the understory and the microfauna of the soil conspire to biodegrade each micronutrient leaving it available once more, for themselves, entering with the water through its small roots. Everything is small, microscopic, imperceptible to the bulk of tropical and subtropical ecosystems, whose voracious dynamics make life a peaceful water slide, whose enjoyment is mixed with the vertigo of childhood, the urgent, the unique and the usual.
The hangover seems to get us out of that common way of getting lost in the hours without knowing what we did and sits us in the front row with the opportunity to go to the front to solve the problem. But solving it well, with such cunning and efficiency that gives us credibility with us, Knowing from there that “we can”, we did it, we are on our way, step by step, since autumn, where apparently we dropped our arms and leaves and eyes, but only for a specific moment, only a scathing silence, necessary , opportune, for us.
The guava is the fruit of the guava, a fleshy berry, with a yellow-green cover and pinkish-whitish acid pulp. Rich in vitamin C, but in addition to the vitamin C for which it is known, guava also contains a lot of water and few calories and vitamin A, E, D12, iron, copper, calcium, magnesium, potassium, manganese and phosphorus. And depending on how ripe it is, it can accompany and promote astringency or intestinal transit.
The fruits are numerous and so are the seeds, a tropical polycarp that knew how to adapt to other climates and other soils, equally providing fruits in every place it inhabits.
The guava points out and indicates that abundant north, that credible music, and that efficiency that comes from the health it provides. Year following year growing, giving, to all the local fauna and to us. Knowing how to take advantage of the fruits is a mysterious task, because among so many things, it seems common and repeated, even inopportune in sidewalks or gardens, the guava tree provides environmental services of all categories. Being a medicine tree, native and ornamental. You just have to know how to carry it.
